Michael Del Zotto

Michael Del Zotto
Date of birth	June 24, 1990
place of birth	Stouffville , Ontario , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 1st round, 20th position New York Rangers
Career stations
2005-2006	Markham Waxers
2006-2009	Oshawa Generals
2009	London Knights
2009-2014	New York Rangers
2012	Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
2014	Nashville Predators
2014-2017	Philadelphia Flyers
2017-2019	Vancouver Canucks
2019	Anaheim Ducks St. Louis Blues
since 2019	Anaheim Ducks

Michael Del Zotto (born June 24, 1990 in Stouffville , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player of Italian descent who has been under contract with the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League since July 2019 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Del Zotto in the Philadelphia Flyers jersey

Michael Del Zotto began his career in 2005 with the Markham Waxers in a sub-division junior league in Ontario. Especially with his 30 goals and 90 assists he was able to draw attention to himself and in the summer of 2006 he moved to the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League to the Oshawa Generals , who had previously selected him at the OHL Priority Selection . For the Oshawa Generals he played two and a half years until January 2009. This led to the fact that the title contender, the London Knights , signed him along with John Tavares and Daryl Borden to win the championship of the OHL. In the semifinals of the 2008/09 season against the Windsor Spitfires, however, they were defeated in the best-of-seven series with 4: 1, with all games being decided in extra time.

Previously, the defender was selected in the first round in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in 20th place by the New York Rangers , who got him to sign his first NHL contract in May 2009. In 2012 Del Zotto played with the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers during the NHL lockout . In January 2014, he was transferred from the New York Rangers to the Nashville Predators, who received defender Kevin Klein in return . On August 6, 2014, Del Zotto joined the Philadelphia Flyers . He signed a one-year contract there, which was subsequently extended for two more years. After his employment contract expired in summer 2017, Del Zotto joined the Vancouver Canucks as a free agent .

He spent almost a year and a half in Vancouver until he was handed over to the Anaheim Ducks in January 2019 , which in return sent Luke Schenn and a seven-round vote for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft to the Canucks. For the Southern Californians, the defender only played twelve games until the end of February 2019 before he was exchanged for a six-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft by the St. Louis Blues . With these he won the Stanley Cup in the following playoffs in 2019 , where he only played seven games in the regular season and no playoff game for the Blues. But since he reached the limit of 41 regular season games, he was immortalized on the trophy.

In July 2019, Del Zotto signed a one-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks, returning to California .

International

Del Zotto played for his home country at the 2010 World Cup in Germany . He was used in five tournament games for the maple leaves , in which he remained without points. The team finished in seventh place at the end of the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

2007 OHL First All- Rookie Team 2008 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game 2009 OHL Third All-Star Team

2009 NHL Rookie of the Month for October 2010 NHL All-Rookie Team 2019 Stanley Cup win with the St. Louis Blues

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2005/06	Markham Waxers	OPJHL		73	30th	90	120	90		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Oshawa Generals	OHL		64	10	47	57	78		9	3	9	12	14th
2007/08	Oshawa Generals	OHL		64	16	47	63	82		15th	2	6th	8th	38
2008/09	Oshawa Generals	OHL		34	7th	26th	33	48		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	London Knights	OHL		28	6th	24	30th	30th		14th	3	16	19th	18th
2009/10	New York Rangers	NHL		80	9	28	37	32		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	New York Rangers	NHL		47	2	9	11	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Connecticut Whale	AHL		11	0	7th	7th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	New York Rangers	NHL		77	10	31	41	36		20th	2	8th	10	12
2012/13	Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	NLA		9	2	5	7th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	New York Rangers	NHL		46	3	18th	21st	18th		12	1	1	2	8th
2013/14	New York Rangers	NHL		42	2	9	11	10		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Nashville Predators	NHL		25th	1	4th	5	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		64	10	22nd	32	34		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		52	4th	9	13	16		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		51	6th	12	18th	28		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		82	6th	16	22nd	48		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		23	1	3	4th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		12	0	3	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	St. Louis Blues	NHL		7th	0	3	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		49	2	13	15th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				190	39	144	183	238		38	8th	31	39	70
NHL overall				657	56	180	236	272		32	3	9	12	20th

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 2010

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010	Canada	WM	7th place		5	0	0	0	0
Men overall					5	0	0	0	0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Michael Del Zotto  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Anaheim Ducks website
• Michael Del Zotto at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ beyondtheblueshirts.com, Interview with Michael Del Zotto
2. ^ Flyers, Del Zotto agree to a one-year contract